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<\/p>\nAs most of you are aware, when the weather is warm I avoid the Union Mission and stay out all night as much as I can. That way, I get to see friends in the evenings and I save the $6 nightly cover charge at the Mission. I’d spend the hours between late-night Saucer\/E&H closing and early-morning Bardog\/Chess Club opening sitting on a park bench on the Main Street Mall in front of the Moxy Hotel.<\/p>\n
Last night I got an unwelcome surprise, though. Sometime Monday or Tuesday the city removed the 2 benches in front of the hotel. <\/p>\n
Basketcase<\/a> returns to headline another Peabody rooftop party Thursday, with special guest Jordan Frye. $15 to get in, $40 to go VIP. VIPs get a buffet of assorted hors d’oeuvres, fruit, and cheese\/vegetable crudite trays.<\/p>\n KICK’N MAC is the burger of the week at Momma’s. Angus beef, four-cheese macaroni, bacon, lettuce, tomato, pickled jalape\u00f1o.<\/p>\n The Majestic Grille seeks a part-time bartender<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today is National Chicken Wing Day and National Lasagna Day.<\/p>\n The Flying Saucer will sell flying saucers on Saturday, which is National Disc Golf Day. First come, first served with very limited supply available. Doors open at 11 AM. $20. They will have a disc golf swag sweepstakes August 1-7; redeem your Untappd badge to enter.<\/p>\n I got 3rd place at Saucer trivia for the third week in a row. I like those $15 gift certificates; I use them as burgers-n-fries on demand whenever I’m out Downtown and hungry.<\/p>\n I had a cucumber lime setzer at the Saucer last night. Refreshing on a day when the feels-like temp makes me wonder if I relocated to Venus.<\/p>\n Back soon with more news.<\/p>\n I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> As most of you are aware, when the weather is warm I avoid the Union Mission and stay out all night as much as I can. That way, I get to see friends in the evenings and I save the $6 nightly cover charge at the Mission. I’d spend the hours between late-night Saucer\/E&H closing … Continue reading “They took my park bench”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30139,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30137\/revisions\/30139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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